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W. W. TURNIPSBED.

FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER.

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\VILLTAM \VESLEY TURNIPSEEI), OF HAMPTON, GEORGIA.

FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,511, dated August28, 1888.

Application filed April 9, 1888. Serial No. 270.0l4. (No model.)

To aZZ 1071.017 it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM WnsLicY TUR- NIPSEED, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Hampton, in the county of Henry and State ofGeorgia,havc invented a new and useful Improvement inFertilizer-Distributors,of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in wheeledfertilizcr-distributers: and it consists in the construction and novelcombination of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a central. vertical longitudinal section ofa machine embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transversesection thereof passing diametrically through the axle. Fig. 3 is a planview of the machine, the hopper removed. Fig. 4 is a perspective view ofthe axle and attachments disconnected from the machine.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A des ignates the frame of themachine,composcd of the shafts a a and the cross-beams a connecting therear portions of the shafts,and situated at equal distances,rcspectively,in front and in rear of the axle B,which has bearings insemicircular blocks 1) b depending from the shafts, the straight edgesof said blocks being secured to the shafts and filling up the spacebetween the facing edges of the beams a a O is the hopper havingvertical ends and up wardly-diverging sides. The said hopper has itsrear lower edge hinged to the upper surface of the cross-beam a." andits front lower edge resting on the upper surface of the crossbeam a.The hopper is held in place by the slot in the horizontal arm (1 of themetal strap D, secured to the front of the hopper, the staple d, securedto the beam or and entering said slot,and the pin l-,passing into thestaple above said arm.

The axle B is a metal tube having secured in one end, preferably theright end, the solid metal journal 1G, having its end portion threaded.

F F are the wheels, the former of which is secured upon the left end ofthe hollow axle, and turns the same, while the latter turns on thejournal E, secured in the right end of the said axle, and is retainedthereon by the nut f.engaged on the threaded end of the journal. Thesaid journal turns in a metal sleeve, f', secured within the bore of thewheel F.

G is a semi-cylindrical trough,preferably of sheet metal, having itsends secured to the semicircular edges of the bearing-blocks b,and theflanges g on its side edges secured to the under surfaces of thecross-beams a aflthe iir ner surface of the said trough being flush withthe facing edges of said beams. The trough is provided with the centraltransverse slot, lI extending entirely across the same, through whichslot passes the ends of the four equidistant radial distributer-arms I,threaded on their inner ends, and having the said ends engaged inthreaded openings in the axle.

J J are convcyer or feeding arms standing out radially from the axle oneach side of the distributer arms. The eonveyerarms have their innerends threaded to engage in threaded openings in the axle, and they arearranged spirally around the axle. The outer ends. 7',of saidconveyor-arms are flattened, and are inclined in the proper direction toconvey the fertilizer fed to said arms through the open lower end of thehopper into the trough toward the distrilmter-arms, which throw itthrough the central slot in the trough.

K is a metal strap pivoted at its front end through its slot k upon theunder surface of the beam (1., and provided with the semicircular bendk', that rests upon the outer side of the trough G, adjacent to the slotII. The rear end of said strap forms a handle,L,passing through thelimiting and retaining staple ly means of said handle and the slottedpivoted front end the strap may be made to cover the slot H and preventthe discharge of the contained fertilizer.

lly having the Wheel F to turn loosely on the axle the machine may beturned on the wheel F without rotating the axle, so that no fertilizerwill be discharged. The conveyor or feeding arms J have their widenedends inclined, the inclination of those on one side of the slot II beingreverse to the inclination of those of the opposite side thereof. Bymeans of the said inclined ends the arms J feed the fertilizer towardthe dischargcslot H,and the straight arms M,projecting horizontallyrearward from the beam a, prevent the same from being thrown upward fromthe trough G.

The strap Kean be moved laterally in such manner as to cover more orless of the slot II and permit more or less of the fertilizer to feedout of said slot.

Having described my invention, I claim In a fertilizer-distributer, thecombination. with the hopper, the wheels F F, and the frame composed ofthe shafts and cross-beams. of the hollow axle turning in thesemicircular blocks b, and having the Wheel F, fixed on its left end,and the solid journal E, secured in the right end of said axle, and thenutf, re- 15 taining the wheel F on said journal,0n which the said Wheelturns loosely, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoi ug as my own I have hereto aflixedmysignature in pres- 20 ence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM WESLEY TIIICNIPSEEI).

l \Vitnesses:

J. I). TURNIPsEED, A. It. MARTIN.

